Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains that you've got within a hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party company and maintain a working email service with the first provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company when you have created an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our shared services is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few basic steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up an Internet site using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are going to be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you just need to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is very easy to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.